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Indigenous music of Canada encompasses a wide variety of musical genres created by Aboriginal Canadians. [1] Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by many First Nations, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Dene to the North, and the Innu and Mi'kmaq in the East and the Cree in the North.
While visiting Fort Liard in the 1800s, George Keith observed three kinds of Dene songs: "love songs, lamentation songs, and ceremonial songs". [2] Dene folk music uses melodies similar to European scales with the coloration of blue notes. According to scholar Michael Asch, Dene music includes "a melodic scale, melody, and metric rhythm". [3]
Scale over 5 octaves Pentatonic Scale - C Major. Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially ...
Music of Africa, especially the non-European, Asian or Arab-derived traditions; Māori music of New Zealand; Music of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia; Music of the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean; Native American music of the United States and Inuit, Métis and First Nation music of Canada
The album again features some songs performed in the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language like on his debut, but also features some English-language songs. [10] The album was a Juno Award nominee for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024 , [ 11 ] and winner of the 2024 Polaris Music Prize , [ 12 ] making Dutcher the first ...
Miller was born in the community of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] Miller became interested in music in his teens and by the late 1990s began touring with Buffy Sainte-Marie. [3] In 2002, Miller released his debut album Music is the Medicine on Winnipeg's Arbor Records. [4]
The Halluci Nation, formerly known as A Tribe Called Red (a name inspired by hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest), [1] is a Canadian electronic music group who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming. [2]
Once he learned how to strum three chords, he began to write songs. He was around twelve years old at that time. From the age of fourteen, he attended secondary school in North Bay. In the 1980s, Martin was executive director of the Wawatay Native Communications Society, a First Nations broadcaster in Northern Ontario. [1]